Every day, more and more people lose all interest and hope. For them, the world simply sucks. People appear cold, senseless, and heartless. There seems to be no sympathy or empathy, only apathy. Will we eventually reach the point of ultimate indifference? It seems that nothing matters anymore: “Everything is futile,” as the writer of Ecclesiastes often stated, and there is no lasting joy in anything in this life.
However, this is not the end of the story for humanity. Contrary to our intuition, our limitations do not always hold us back. Our failures are not without remedy; they can open us to possibilities beyond our grasp. There is the possibility that we are meant for something deeper than we thought and that we need to depend on someone greater than ourselves. This old, yet relevant, need for the divine, our Maker and the source of all true joy—remains!
Out of Egypt 